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20112012
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INTERNATIONAL CO-AGENTS
PORTUGAL, FRANCE AND SPANISH LANGUAGE
Anne Marie Vallat
anne-marie@amvagencialiteraria.com
ENGLISH
Jonah Straus
jonah@strausliterary.com
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES
Nicole Witt
n.witt@mertin-litag.de
João Anzane l lo C a r r a s c o z a
Aos sete e aos
quarenta
Letícia Wierzchowski
The Getka / Os GetkaAndrzej is a writer who wants to
find a start to his new book after the
end of his marriage. Trying to write, his memories take him to
when he was a boy and spent the summers with the family in a
desert beach. Their summers were shared with the Getka, and
there was Lylia, the brave and beautiful youngest daughter of
the Getkas. Fantasy and reality, past and present, show that
life is capricious: the doors it opens may close with no previous
warning, and no compass can ever make sure we will reach the
destination of our dreams.
The Angel and the Rest of Us / O Anjo e o resto de nósAbout to become a TV series, the book unveils
the difficulties, hates, loves, controversies
and tragedies in a family saga beautifully told
through generations.
Adriana Falcão
Black Music
Michael Philips is in his way to be a
seven-footer, when he is kidnapped
by a gang of Rio de Janeiro’s drug
dealers. Seeing at stake his dreams
of playing basketball and studying
trumpet at the same university
attended by his idol Michael Jordan,
his passion for jazz begins to
captivate both the chief dealer, a 17
years old white boy who dreams of
becoming a gansta rap star, and the
captivity’s cooker, a 16 years old
mulatto girl who loves to dance at one
of Rio’s famous bailes funk.
RIGHTS SOLD: PORTUGAL (QUETZAL); FRANCE (ASPHALTE)
The Machine / A Máquina
Adriana’s first novel, The Machine,
won both readers and reviewers
with the fable of a girl who dreams
of becoming an actress and seeing
the world, and of her beloved
who, afraid of losing her, promises
to travel in time to bring her the
world she craves. Besides a stage
adaptation, the book was adapted
into a successful film directed by
João Falcão and awarded a prize
at Rio Film Festival.
Arthur Dapieve Beatriz Bracher
Antonio
Benjamim is about to become a father,
and discovers a family secret. He then
decides to find out how everything
happened from the ones involved.
Three of them – his grandmother,
Isabel; Haroldo, his grandfather’s
friend; and Raul, his parents’ friend
– will tell him their versions of the
facts, and by gathering these pieces
of memory, Benjamim will solve the
puzzle of the history of his family.
In this polyphonic narrative, Beatriz
articulates general and private,
individual and historical, building
characters that are simultaneously
unique and identifiable in their social
context. Both protagonist and reader
are moved listeners to the story.
Claudia Tajes
Cintia Moscovich
Why Am I Fat, Mommy?/ Por que sou gorda, mamãe?
A writer puts on forty-eight and a
half pounds in only four years. How
could she have completely lost
control of her own body and never
even realize it? Could the roots of
the problem lie in her past, in the
family history, in all the love - and
hate - shared by children and their
parents? These are the questions
that guide journalist Cíntia
Moscovich’s highly praised novel.
As the narrator searches for the
reasons why she put on so much
weight so quickly, she embarks on
a journey through memory focused
on her Jewish family of European
immigrants, and especially on
her strained relationship with her
mother. At the end of this very
personal and often painful journey,
not only does she find her own
lost body, but also the strength to
become a full-fledged writer.
RIGHTS SOLD: ITALY (CAVALLO DI FERRO)
Vengeful / Por isso eu sou vingativa
Vengeful addresses a recurring
wish for most people, seldom
fulfilled: to take revenge for the
humiliation and injuries they have
suffered. Sara Gomes, the leading
character, owner of a bankrupt
laundry service store, lists eight
men that, from her point of view,
despised her in the past, and
moves on to revenge. Will this all
pay off? Claudia Tajes leaves it for
the reader to decide.
On The Road Again / Fé na estrada
Fé na Estrada tells the story of Eduardo
and Mariana, alter egos of writer
Dodô Azevedo and photographer
Luiza Leite, who decided to revisit the
route American writer Jack Kerouac
covered in the 1950s, leading to the
classic On the Road. They aimed at
finding what still lingered of beatnik
and countercultural in 21st Century
America. Inexperienced in the
travelling field and with little money
on their pockets, the task proved to
be an adventure. Whether it be Navajo
Indians, hallucinations with peyote tea
or federal agents mistaking the author
for an Arab terrorist, everything that
happens with the foreigners during this
unpredictable journey put them face to
face with mixed feelings - deep hatred
and love - for the American culture.
Dodô Azevedo
Pilar’s Diary Of Greece / Diário de Pilar na Grécia
Pilar loves travelling. Her series of
books is well known in Brazil. Now
she keeps a diary, describing every
moment of her first adventure.
She grew up without her dad, in
her grandpa’s house. When Pilar’s
grandpa goes to Greece and she
hears that he is never coming back,
she cannot accept it and wishes
she could go after him. With a
magic hammock, she and her best
friend Breno travel to Greece and
meet several gods along the way.
But life among them isn’t easy
and no one will ever be the same
after this adventure. Pilar’s Diary of
Greece is charmingly illustrated by
Joana Penna – the Agency’s first
represented illustrator.
Flavia Lins e Silva
The Championship / O campeonato
André will not settle down
professionally due to his
uncontrollable compulsion to
reading detective novels. Inspired by
characters such as Sherlock Holmes
and Hercule Poirot, he decides to
take a detective distance course
which will send him into a bizarre
investigation of a competition
called “The Championship”. André
goes through streets and bars
in Rio de Janeiro, and is Flavio
Carneiro’s homage to the city, as
well as to mystery novels, and to his
favourite authors – Rubem Fonseca,
especially. The book’s protagonist,
all in all, is the detective novel itself,
object of passion of heroes and
criminals.
Flavio Carneiro João Anzanello Carrascoza
At Seven And At Forty / Aos sete e aos quarenta
Carrascoza’s first novel At
Seven and At Forty reveals
the experiences of a man in
two seminal periods of human
existence. The first part, in the
1970’s, shows the character at his
coming of age, living in a small
Brazilian town in which rural culture
prevails. Back then he exercises
a discovery look. It is dream time.
In the other part, at his forties,
in 2010, he lives in a big city,
impacted by media and its ways to
make everything spectacular, and
sees himself before an inventory of
his own experiences. It is reason
time.
Livia Garcia-Roza
Liliana’s Notebook / Caderno de Liliana
Liliana’s house grew bigger and turned into a
complete mess without her mother. Roque and
Peu, the girl’s brothers, are always up to something.
Her father has no time for the kids. Her aunt and
her grandmother do not listen to her. And Jacyra,
the maid, is always busy cleaning or doing laundry.
Liliana then learns that living without a mother is
“terrible” and that she has to find a way to deal with
her absence. It is through everyday life, speech and
writing at a compass of a child, that this literary
and spontaneous narrative on learning, growing
up, losing the ones we love, and reorganising
our affections is built. In this sensitive story, with
touches of humour, Livia’s fiction is unveiled in its
best shape.
Somewhere In Paradise / Em Algum Lugar do Paraíso
From our fantasies on the first man on earth to our
anguish on the inevitable passage of time, Verissimo
makes us laugh with his sophisticated humour and
great narrative elegance. It is paradise: the talent
of one of the most respected Brazilian writers in
irresistible chronicles about time, love, and lost
opportunities – as well as those that might still be
taken.
Luis Fernando Verissimo
Justice / Justiça
Based on a conversation with a taxi
driver who was shocked by the news of a
colleague’s murder during a robbery, Soares
attempts to dissolve certainties of common sense in his new
book. What exactly is violence? Is there a relationship between
a committed crime and the punishment applied? Would Human
Rights defence stimulate impunity? The author goes to the core
of these and other issues.
Elite Squad 2 – Graphic novel / Elite da Tropa 2 – Graphic novel
The graphic novel adaptation of Elite Squad
2 counts with the collaboration of graphic
artist Marcus Wagner and revisits themes and characters from
Elite Squad (Objetiva, 2006) as well as from Elite Squad 2 (Nova
Fronteira, 2010) and the homonymous films.
Luiz Eduardo Soares
of a
LLya Luft
The World´S Wealth / A Riqueza do Mundo
With a 30-year trajectory in
Literature and more than 20
books published, novelist, poet,
translator and essayist Lya Luft
is one of the biggest Brazilian
editorial prodigies of our times,
with more than 1.2 million copies
sold. The surprising essay book
Losses and Gains, a gigantic
success with rights sold in many
countries, was at the top the
Brazilian bestselling list for 113
weeks. The World’s Wealth is dry
and poetic at the same time. Lya
tackles human existential issues,
our perplexities, education,
family, authority, morality versus
moralism, and some of the most
pungent problems of our society:
wars, poverty, politics, to name a
few.
Guerrilla Warfare: A Manual / Método Prático da Guerrilha
The name Che Guevara is not
unfamiliar, but few know the details
that led to his downfall in 1966
and 1967. Isolated in Tanzania and
depressed with the recent guerrilla
failure in the Congo, he gathers his
most faithful followers to plot a new
revolution. His goal is now Bolivia.
Tired of the Cuban bureaucracy,
he wants things done his way: no
deals, no concessions, and with
the unbeatable method he himself
created. Practical Guerrilla Warfare
is a work of fiction. It is a novel of
ambition and madness based on
true events — the last revolutionary
expedition of Che Guevara —, but
which subverts documented history,
recreating characters and scenarios.
It’s also a love story, and a pastiche,
of the few who remained by the
fighter’s side until his final moments.
RIGHTS SOLD: GERMANY (SUHRKAMP); ITALY (MONDADORI); PORTUGAL (DOM QUIXOTE); SPAIN (ALFAGUARA)
Marcelo FerroniPractical
Maria Tereza Maldonado
The Hidden Side / A Face Oculta
Humiliation, hostility and defamation
compose a three-term equation
named bullying or cyberbullying.
Luciana knows this well enough.
She stays up late on the computer,
chatting with friends, and when
Marcelo chooses her as his target
and starts to send her offensive
messages through her mobile phone,
she does not know how to deal with
this unknown enemy.
Maria Valéria Rezende
The Flight Of The Red Ibis / O Voo da Guará Vermelha
Maria Valéria’s first novel is the tale
of an unlikely and deeply moving love
between an illiterate construction
worker in São Paulo and an HIV-
positive prostitute who has lost the
will to live. He needs someone to
listen to the stories he has to tell –
even though he doesn’t know how
to read or write; she in turn needs
someone who can truly love her.
Together, these two anonymous and
invisible people weave a beautiful
tale about the need for affection that
afflicts people in the modern world. In
a truly original voice, the author draws
inspiration from classical references
such as Thousand and One Nights as
well as from the pace and language
of cordel, a traditional style of popular
writing very common in north-eastern
Brazil.
RIGHTS SOLD: FRANCE (EDITIONS MÉTAILIÉ); PORTUGAL (OFICINA DO LIVRO); SPAIN – CATALAN (CLUB EDITOR)
Marina Colasanti
My War Of Theirs / Minha guerra alheia
In this moving memoir whose
reminiscences shift from dramatic
to sweet, historical to emotive,
Marina tells of WWII seen through
the eyes of a child. The book
opens with her parent’s wedding,
travels to Africa with her family,
the years in Italy during the War,
and watches their arrival to Brazil.
The author highlights the inner
strength of the women around her,
like her mother and her baby-
sitter, who kept their heads up in
the hardest circumstances. Her
father, a happy and generous
man, volunteered at the war.
Marina tries to grasp the source of
his passion, and this questioning
and the consequences of the
conflict in her family’s life are the
substance with which she crafts
this outstanding book.
If One Of Us Die / Se um de nós morrer
Théo, traumatised with the failure
of his first book and paralised by
his incapacity to write a second
book, dies without getting rid of
the destructive impulse of writing.
After a torrid and passionate night
with his ex-girlfriend, she finds him
dead on his bed after coming back
to get the mobile phone she had
left. In a red envelope wrapped in
plastic paper he left on the drawer,
the inscription - ‘To Sofia’. Sofia
must fulfill his last wish – send to
Catalan writer Enrique Vila-Matas
some sort of legacy of anguish –
manuscripts of a book that has
never existed. So as to accomplish
the mission, she goes to Paraty,
where the 2005 edition of the
International Literary Festival of
Paraty (FLIP) is being held and
of which Vila-Matas is one of the
invited authors.
Paulo Roberto Pires
Rosa Amanda Strausz
Seven Bones And A Curse / Sete ossos e uma maldição
Eleven hair-raising short-stories are
told in Seven Bones and a Curse.
But fear does not paralyse here, on
the contrary: it makes you want to
turn page after page, quicker and
quicker - but not without taking a
deep breath first.
Sergio Rodrigues
Elza
In a bold mixture of reality and
fiction, historical research and literary
invention, this fast-paced novel
tells the real tragic story of Elza
Fernandes, a 16 year-old communist
who got involved in the famous
“Intentona” – a failed attempt to
overthrow the Brazilian government
orchestrated in 1935 by the Third
International.
RIGHTS SOLD: PORTUGAL (QUETZAL)
Socorro AcioliSocorro Acioli
The Ghost Ballerina / A bailarina fantasma
The Theater José de Alencar was about
to be renovated. Marcelo, an architect
expert in old buildings, was hired to
coordinate the works. His mission was
to make the theater look exactly as it
looked on its first day. Marcelo was a
widower with a daughter, Anabela, who
had a scary meeting with a ghost right at
the first day of the renovation work. That
was the ghost of a young girl, a dancer,
who used to appear in the theatre.
Anabela then embarked on a journey
to the past days of that place and got
involved in a story of love, revenge and
mysteries, carried by the cold breath
and the diaphanous presence of the
ghost dancer, who would only be free
after sorting out, with Anabela’s help,
something important that she wasn’t
able to do in life.
Tony Bellotto
Down In The Hole / No Buraco
Tony Bellotto is a rock musician and writer – his new book, Down in the Hole, is in the intersection of Tony’s two
main talents. Narrated in first person, the book tells the misadventures of Teo Zanquis, a decadent rocker in his
fifties who took part of a one hit band in the 1980s. He tells of his frantic life on the road, in the golden times, and
of his recent passion for a young Korean girl he met at a record shop in São Paulo. With extraordinary dialogues,
the story is full of humour, sex, drugs, and rock’ n roll. There are many musical references from the 1980s and
backwards, which may spark varied (and pleasant) doses of nostalgia.
RIGHTS SOLD: PORTUGAL (QUETZAL)
PARTIAL AUTHOR´S LIST:CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Adélia PRADOAlcione ARAUJOAriano SUASSUNAArthur DAPIEVEBeatriz BRACHERCarlos Herculano LOPESCíntia MOSCOVICHClaudia TAJESDodô AZEVEDOFlávio CARNEIROJoão A. CARRASCOZAJoão Silvério TREVISANLeticia WIERZCHOWSKILivia GARCIA-ROZA
Luis Fernando VERÍSSIMOLuiz Eduardo SOARESLya LUFTLygia Fagundes TELLESMarcelo FERRONIMaria Adelaide AMARALMaria Tereza MALDONADOMaria Valéria REZENDERoberto DaMATTASérgio RODRIGUESTony BELLOTTOVitor RAMIL Zuenir VENTURA
CHILDREN & YA
Adriana FALCÃOFlávia LINS E SILVALuciana SAVAGETMarcelo PIRESMarcio VASSALLOMarina COLASANTISocorro ACIOLIRosa Amanda STRAUSZ
CLASSICS
Caio Fernando ABREUCarlos DRUMMOND de ANDRADEÉrico VERÍSSIMOJoão CABRAL de MELO NETOJorge de LIMAJosé Cândido de CARVALHOMario QUINTANAOtto Lara RESENDEPaulo Emílio SALES GOMESPaulo Mendes CAMPOSRachel de QUEIROZSérgio PORTO Sylvia ORTHOF
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